"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

prove verbo

prove + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 103

prove one's point • prove one's innocence • prove one's case • prove one's worth • prove one's theory • prove one's ability • ...

verbo + prove

Kolokacji: 14

try to prove • failed to prove • need to prove • want to prove • go to prove • ...

prove + preposición

Kolokacji: 31

prove beyond • prove to • prove by • prove over • prove against • ...

prove + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 362

prove difficult • prove successful • prove popular • prove useful • prove effective • prove impossible • prove fatal • prove wrong • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 86

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 70

(1) difficult, intractable, recalcitrant, uncooperative, uncontrollable, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(2) successful, successfully, victorious, fortunate, fortuitous

Kolokacji: 5

(3) popular, unpopular, ideal

Kolokacji: 3

(4) useful, helpful, instrumental

Kolokacji: 3

(5) effective, efficient, contagious, efficacious, economical, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(6) impossible, unacceptable, intolerable

Kolokacji: 3

(7) fatal, disastrous, prophetic, unfortunate, unlucky, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(8) wrong, correct, accurate, right, incorrect, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(9) unsuccessful, fruitless, fruitful, productive, unproductive, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(10) true, reliable, tricky, misleading, untrustworthy, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(11) costly, invaluable, valuable, expensive, worthwhile, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(12) controversial, contentious, divisive

Kolokacji: 3

(13) unable, ineffective, useless, inefficient, ineffectual, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(14) false, untrue, unstable, faithless, volatile, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(15) elusive, problematic, troublesome, embarrassing, tough, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(16) inadequate, insufficient, hardly, inferior, deficient, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. prove inadequate = okaż się niedostateczny prove inadequate

2. prove insufficient = okaż się niewystarczający prove insufficient

I failed tonight, when my color light proved insufficient to overcome you.
However, the endowment began to prove insufficient to the needs of the buildings themselves.
Should open market operations prove insufficient the President had several options.
He served in this position only four years, however, his health proving insufficient to the task.
If one thickness proves insufficient, you can always add another.
If this vessel proved insufficient, he would wait a few years and take the second.
These changes proved insufficient when major disturbances took place 1959.
My right knee and left arm proved insufficient to support the weight above me.
By the 1910s, the old frame building had proved insufficient for the church's needs.
But even the spread of disease will prove insufficient to make life worth living.